Man held in deadly smoke shop shooting

STOCKTON - Stockton police on Tuesday arrested a man in the shooting death of a 40-year-old man at an east Stockton smoke shop Friday, officials said.

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STOCKTON - Stockton police on Tuesday arrested a man in the shooting death of a 40-year-old man at an east Stockton smoke shop Friday, officials said.

James Tyler Roots, 33, was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail on a charge he killed Obed Pigg, 40, inside Smoke 'n' Stuff Smoke Shop, at 2386 E. Main St., according to a jail record and police Officer Pete Smith.

Roots is scheduled to be arraigned today in San Joaquin County Superior Court.

Police previously said the shooting did not appear to have been in the course of a robbery, and Smith said Wednesday that the two men had "personal issues" between them, though it was unclear what those were.

Police said a female motorist chased the suspect in the shooting from the smoke shop, but she lost him near McKinley Park.

Pigg, whose funeral is Friday, was shot several times, police said.

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